[EU-lobby-data] Using lobbycrunching data for research on MIFID/EMIR lobby?

Friedrich Lindenberg friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org
Wed Feb 27 17:42:00 UTC 2013


This sounds very interesting. Do you have any sense of the types of
information that would be needed or the sort of questions they'd need to
ask?

- Friedrich


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Natacha Cingotti <
natacha.cingotti at foeeurope.org> wrote:

>  Hi guys,
>
> Maybe we can discuss this at the call on friday, but I had a question from
> our food spec/finance regulation campaigner Anne about MIFID/EMIR lobbying.
> She's looking into ways to expose some of the scandalous aspects of the
> corporate lobbying on this issue, both showing imbalance industry/civil
> society plus also maybe manage to expose the very harsh lobbying from some
> specific industries (energy companies, commodity businesses, apparently
> also aviation).
>
> So I was wondering:
> - is there a way we could extract some data from the database to help her?
> - is that an idea that we would add MIFID to the list of topics to be
> featured in our launch? (there's a window of 2 to 3 months for her in the
> campaign, which means that if we could make some noise when we launch the
> tool, insh'allah somewhere around mid April) - so if we could extract the
> data, I'm happy to work on a MIFID-related story with anne, that we could
> add to the other stories. Campaign-wise it would be very helpful.
>
> Let me know what you think
>
> Natacha
>
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